Nintendo Preps for Room-to-Room Voice Chatting

November 10, 2008

Nintendo Preps for Room-to-Room
Voice Chatting

The new in-game voice chat function
for Animal Crossing: City Folk will be ready to go as soon as the game launches
on Nov. 16, using the Wii Speak accessory. A separate Wii Speak Channel that
people can use to chat independent of Animal Crossing: City Folk will be
available in December.

The new voice chat function makes
use of the new Wii Speak accessory, a microphone that sits on top of the
television and allows entire rooms of people to communicate with one another.
Only users who have traded Friend Codes can connect with one another using Wii
Speak. The accessory is sold separately at an MSRP of $29.99 and will also be
available as a bundle with Animal Crossing: City Folk at select retailers at an
MSRP of $69.99. The Wii Speak accessory comes with a code that lets users
download the Wii Speak Channel from the Wii Shop Channel at no charge.

The Wii Speak Channel will allow
friends and family members to chat with one another, whether they live across
town or across the globe. When users are chatting with the Wii Speak Channel,
they can see each other's Mii characters representing them on the television
screen.

Remember that Wii features parental
controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more
information about this and other Wii features, visit Wii.com. For more
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www.Nintendo.com.